The winner of our NAMA Convention iPhone drawing is Paige Gilligan, Agrestic Solutions. She was the lucky one out of all the entries in the drawing we held with Truffle Media Networks. She’s looking forward to getting her phone and it’s now on the way to her. I ordered it during the mania of the phone’s release. Why camp out …
A Look Forward To Boot Camp
I think this is one of those lazy kind of weeks. We’ve got a national holiday in the middle of it! Either you’re getting ready for it or you’ll be recovering from it afterward. But some of us are working at it. One of those people is Jenny Pickett, Chief Operating Officer for the National Agri-Marketing Association. I talked with …
Boot Up Your Agri-Marketing Knowledge
It’s hard to believe it’s time to look forward to another NAMA Boot Camp. But you can now register online if you’re interested in attending. Post Update: ZimmComm New Media is now a sponsor of this year’s NAMA Boot Camp. We’re sponsoring the closing session on Thursday at 10 am on “Ethanol – Today and Tomorrow” presented by Robert White, …
Sanabria Inaugural Grant Winner
And the first annual Eastern Chapter, National Agri-Marketing Association’s student award goes to Alida Sanabria. To support young, aspiring ag professionals, the National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA), Eastern Chapter, presented its first annual student award grant at New York City’s John Bowne High School graduation awards ceremony on May 31, 2007. Wendy Elliot, Pfizer Animal Health, presented the award to graduating …
NAMA Executive Director Position Update
If you’re interested in following in Eldon White’s shoes then now is the time to let the search committee at NAMA know. Here’s an excerpt from a member letter just sent out by fearless leader Stephanie Gable. Post Update: You can find the NAMA Executive Director Position Description here (Word doc). The position has been posted, effective today, on the …
Rex Parsons Passes Away
I have to take a moment to post about the passing away of Rex Parsons, former Executive Director of the National Agri-Marketing Association. The full information as posted by the NAMA office is included below (click on “more”). I would dare say that any of us who were members during the Rex era have our stories to tell. I will …
Some Think NAMA is Odd
I don’t know about you but I don’t feel odd. That’s the word that Angela Natividad, AdRants, uses to describe the National Agri-Marketing Association. In a post she did on John Deere’s NAMA winning ads for Farm Plan, like the one with the farmer walking a cute pooch, she says, “It’s odd enough that an association for agri-marketing in specific …
K-State Wins NAMA Student Marketing Competition
I sure don’t want to forget to let you know that Kansas State University won the NAMA Student Marketing Competition again this year. Just in case you’re wondering. Yes, Florida did take third, placing higher than Ohio State. Sorry, but it had to be said. The other finalists included, University of Florida, Sam Houston, Ohio State, Univ of Wisconsin-Platteville and …
Phil Johnson Be Comin’ Round The Mountain
This was too good an opportunity to pass up, sorry Phil. As you know, Phil Johnson is the NAMA Marketer of the Year. His company held a very nice reception at the NAMA convention to honor him and I was lucky enough to be invited and toast him in his golden toga. One of the things they also did for …
A NAMA Retrospective With Eldon White
This past week’s NAMA Convention was Eldon White’s last one as the Executive Director/CEO. I think he’s been with NAMA for almost 16 years. Hard to believe it’s been that long. It seems like just yesterday Rex Parsons was there. Doesn’t it? Eldon will be moving on to the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association and has already made it …